Table of Contents
Welcome Note ...... 2
About the Fellowship ...... 3
Fellow Biographies ...... 5
Program Schedule ...... 13
Speaker Biographies ...... 29
Program Locations ...... 48
About Humanity in Action ...... 50
Program Staff Biographies ...... 51
International Staff & Offices ...... 53
Notes ...... 55 Welcome Note
Greetings–
The Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship takes place during a time of extraordinary challenge in international and domestic realms. Our aim is to provide historical and contemporary insights from some of the most important observers and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond – leaders in government, foreign policy institutions, business, media and the academy. The wide range of subjects that we will explore includes aspects of international law, transatlantic relations, security and conflict, national sovereignty, the European Union, international development, trade and business, democratic movements, technology and social media, trafficking and slavery, authoritarian states and human rights, including those of minorities. We will also examine the role of non-governmental organizations, pressure groups and a variety of domestic constituencies in the formulation of foreign policy. Questions about diversity and pluralism will intersect in these discussions with unusual frequency throughout the program. We will explore diversity in a broad sense – diversity of peoples, ideas, values, institutions and practices. We will discuss the formation and practice of foreign policy by a diverse cadre of institutions, groups and individuals and the impact of national and foreign policy on pluralistic societies. Embarking on this program, Humanity in Action has specific goals: to make our societies more effective and constructive in addressing global issues; to increase the representation of minorities in international fields; to recognize the power and dignity in diversity based upon different cultural and historical perspectives; to appreciate the importance of pluralism as it intersects and sometimes even drives international issues; and to expand perspectives in graduate programs and research communities to include issues of diversity and pluralism in the consideration of international affairs. We are very grateful to our many speakers in Washington, Berlin, Paris and The Hague and to those institutions and individuals hosting us.
With thanks,
Judith S. Goldstein, Ph.D. Founder and Executive Director Humanity in Action
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About the Fellowship
In 2014, Humanity in Action launched the Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship, a new transatlantic educational program for graduate students about international relations and global diversity. In this program, a group of 24 American and European Fellows engage in an intense and demanding series of high-level seminars, discussions and site visits to explore a wide range of international issues with particular emphasis on democracy, diversity and pluralism.
The 2015 fellowship will take place in Washington, Paris and Berlin. It will conclude in The Hague at the Sixth Annual Humanity in Action International Conference. In the United States, Germany, France and the Netherlands, the Fellows will meet with experts and practitioners at governmental agencies, international NGOs, universities, think tanks, media outlets and foreign policy organizations. The Council on Foreign Relations will host and organize multiple sessions in Washington focused on building skills, networks and knowledge for foreign policy careers. The program will take place from May 29 – June 28, 2015.
VISION Foreign policy is no longer the sole domain of national governments and heads of state. CEOs, local governments, journalists, think tanks, NGOs, lobbyists and online activists increasingly play influential roles in international negotiations and initiatives. Foreign policy is also becoming more influenced by national pluralism and the interests of diverse sets of domestic groups. Thus, the Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship will explore diversity in the broadest sense—diversity of peoples, ideas, values, institutions and practices in international relations.
Humanity in Action believes that this diversification of players in international affairs and the interests they pursue create the need for leaders from diverse backgrounds who are able to approach global challenges in innovative ways. Humanity in Action seeks to cultivate leadership skills and knowledge in the Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows—a new group of emerging leaders who have the knowledge, creativity and ability to collaborate across borders and sectors in changing international communities.
The guiding mission of the Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship is to increase understanding of pluralistic societies, awareness of the importance of diversity in diplomatic and other international fields, and the inclusion of those from minority backgrounds in international relations.
APPROACH In the 2015 Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship, participants will discuss and research a wide range of subjects including, but not limited to, democracy in a domestic and international perspective; the influence of non-state actors— including business, non-profit organizations and interest groups—in foreign affairs; the role of Germany in European politics and international relations; conflict and national security; and migration and asylum. ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 3
The Fellows will explore these subjects from national, transatlantic and international vantage points while also evaluating the ways in which history impacts contemporary policy. The program’s sessions will introduce Fellows to both foreign policy experts and practitioners who will provide conceptual and theoretical perspectives as well as networking opportunities.
HUMANITY IN ACTION Humanity in Action is an international organization that educates, inspires and connects a global network of established and emerging leaders committed to promoting human rights, diversity and active citizenship—in their own communities and around the world. Humanity in Action organizes educational and professional programs in Europe and the United States. Humanity in Action’s offices are located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States.
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AASHA ABDILL Princeton University Aasha Abdill is an independent evaluation and strategy consultant and manages organizational efforts to assess and enhance the significant impact of programming. She holds an MA in quantitative methodology from Columbia University and a PhD in sociology from Princeton University with a concentration in organizational theory and race and ethnicity. Currently, Aasha is a Research and Evaluation Consultant with The Annie E. Casey Foundation working on an initiative to increase the diversity of researchers and evaluators providing valuable skills, insights and scholarship to philanthropy, policy and nonprofit practice. Prior to this position, Aasha was awarded a fellowship at the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which, through their prestigious annual international competition, recognizes and curates comprehensive solutions to pressing global challenges. Aasha was born and bred in Brooklyn, New York.
ROBERT ALVAREZ University of Arizona Robert Alvarez is a dual-degree candidate at the University of Arizona pursuing a master of public administration and an MA in Latin American studies. His thesis research examines the impact of the 2014 Brazil World Cup on sex trafficking in Northeastern Brazil. Previously, Robert served three years in the United States Peace Corps as a Youth and Community Development Specialist in El Salvador. During his service, Robert developed projects focused on disaster relief coordination, HIV/AIDS education, leadership and recreational programs for at-risk youth. He then spent three years working at a San Diego community mental health clinic with immigrant and refugee families as well as with low-income students through a local program to increase educational attainment. Robert earned his BA in psychology from Northern Arizona University. He was born and raised in Southern California.
DAVID BARGUEÑO King’s College, London David Bargueño is a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State currently serving as Vice Consul at the Consulate General of São Paulo, Brazil. He previously worked as a Presidential Management Fellow in the U.S. Secretary of State’s Office of Global Food Security, where his portfolio focused on U.S. strategic partnerships with Brazil, India, and South Africa. His doctoral research at King’s College, London, focuses on development diplomacy in these three countries. David earned his MA from the Council on African Studies at Yale University and BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He grew up in the United States and Spain.
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MARTHA BÖHRT University of Texas at Austin Martha Böhrt is a graduate student at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. As the Diversity Fellow in the Lower Rio Grande Water Quality Initiative, she supports Mexican and American officials in the development of a joint bi- national pollution prevention and water quality improvement plan. Her policy interests include the interaction between nonprofits and government agencies in the identification of social needs, as well as the perpetuation of structural and institutional violence faced by migrants worldwide. Prior to enrolling in graduate school, Martha worked for private, public and nonprofit organizations. She was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico. She has been living in the United States for the past 13 years.
ANALICIA CARPIO American University Analicia Carpio is a MA candidate in international communication exploring the nexus between international education, peacebuilding and diplomacy at American University's School of International Service. She served as a 2011-2012 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and also interned for International Justice Mission and the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She obtained her BA from George Mason University where she double-majored in music and conflict analysis and resolution. As an undergraduate, she co-founded an international justice student organization, conducted policy research on global navigation satellite systems for the U.S. Department of Transportation, and undertook study abroad and fieldwork in mainland China, Taiwan, Israel and the West Bank. Analicia is an accomplished flutist and a 2002 Winter Olympics Torchbearer. Salvadoran and Korean in heritage, she grew up in Vienna, Virginia.
PELIN EKMEN King’s College, London Pelin Ekmen is a PhD student at the School of Law at King’s College, London. A scholar to the German National Academic Foundation, Pelin graduated with distinction in German law, English law and international law and subsequently travelled to Iraq in preparation for her doctoral thesis. As an undergraduate student, a placement with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia formed her keen interest in post conflict international law. Based upon a case study on Iraq, her doctoral research examines the legal framework governing the allocation of natural resources in post conflict states. Her research interests lie in war law and state building after violent conflict, as well as in constitutional law and asymmetric state design.
! 6 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! DAVID ESAREY University of Denver David Esarey received his master’s in international human rights from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, as well as a graduate certificate in international law and human rights from the Sturm College of Law. During his graduate studies he was the Project Manager for the Human Trafficking Center in Denver, where he oversaw their global index assessing human trafficking around the world. His primary research interests include genocide and issues pertaining to the rights and treatment of the Roma, stemming from the time he spent working in a Roma community in Romania. David was raised in Bloomington, Indiana.
USRA GHAZI Harvard University Usra Ghazi is a Policy Fellow at the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians and a MA candidate in religion and politics at Harvard Divinity School. At Harvard, she has served as a Junior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions and a Policy Fellow for the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. Prior to her graduate studies she worked at Interfaith Youth Core as a Campus Outreach Manager where she served on the organizing team for President Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. She previously worked as a research associate with the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre under the auspices of HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad. Usra received her undergraduate degree in religious studies at DePaul University. She was born in Pakistan and raised in Skokie, Illinois.
SANDRINE GIL Sciences Po Paris Sandrine Gil is a graduate from Sciences Po Paris, France’s leading political studies university. She holds a bachelor’s in political science and a master's in public affairs. Sandrine previously worked at the French Ministry of Defense within the Bilateral Cooperation Cell of the Air Force Headquarters. She is currently pursuing an advanced degree in Latin American studies and aspires to work as a civil servant in the French government. Sandrine’s main research interests include defense and security, energy, international development and women's rights. She was born and raised in the south of France and moved to Paris in 2009.
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LUKAS GOLTERMANN Free University of Berlin, Humboldt-University of Berlin, University of Potsdam Lukas Goltermann works as a Team Leader and Project Manager for the Partnership with Africa Foundation based in Potsdam, Germany. He is responsible for the foundation's COMENGA Programme, which has projects and activities focused on civil society, schools and higher education. Initiated in 2012, this program is dedicated to building and strengthening civil society partnerships between Germany and African countries. Lukas studied international relations and politics in Sheffield (UK), Berlin and Potsdam. He lives in Berlin and is active in community garden projects in his neighborhood.
KAYEROMI (ROMI) GOMEZ North Dakota State University Kayeromi “Romi” Gomez is a Statistical Consultant for North Dakota State University. He is also a Founder and Strategic Advisor for the Center for International Media Ethics, a center that has offered a platform for media professionals worldwide to take on a proactive role toward better ethical practices and responsible journalism since 2007. Romi obtained his BA in journalism and public relations before pursuing an actuarial science graduate degree and a PhD in applied statistics. He is interested in applying statistics to effective policy and decision-making and he believes his diverse background will enable him to do just that. Romi, a native of Benin, has lived in the United States since 2000.
CARLY GOODMAN Temple University Carly Goodman is a doctoral candidate in history at Temple University. Her dissertation, "Global Game of Chance: The U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery, Transnational Migration, and Cultural Diplomacy in Africa, 1990-2015," is the first in-depth examination of the green card lottery that blends immigration and international relations history. She has received several grants and fellowships to support her work. Prior to graduate school, Carly worked at the nonprofit organization Human Rights First, where she focused on US interrogation and detention policy as well as refugee and asylum issues. She earned her BA in modern European history from Columbia University in 2004. She grew up in Washington, DC’s Maryland suburbs, spent about a decade in New York City and has now made Philadelphia home.
! 8 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! FABRICE GUERRIER Eastern Mennonite University Fabrice Guerrier is the youngest member on the board of directors for Coming to the Table, an organization that works across the United States to address the legacies of slavery. Fabrice is a MA candidate in conflict transformation at Eastern Mennonite University. Previously, he founded and directed the Leehg Institute for Foreign Policy for four years. He has research experience working with Fambul Tok International in postwar communities in Sierra Leone. Fabrice has interned in the Front Office Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State. He received his bachelor of science in international affairs and a leadership studies certificate from Florida State University. Fabrice was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He speaks French and Kreyol.
KATIE HAHN New York University Katie Hahn is a master of social work candidate concentrating in macro practice and international social work at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. She is also an intern at the Center for Evidence Based Implementation and Research where she conducts program evaluations and assists with evidence based model implementation. Katie has previously worked in the mental health and education fields both in the United States and abroad. She received her undergraduate degree in social studies from Harvard University. Katie was born and raised in New York City.
NADIYA KOSTYUK University of Michigan Nadiya Kostyuk is currently a doctoral student in the political science/public policy joint program at the University of Michigan. Prior to her studies, she worked as a Program Coordinator for the EastWest Institute’s Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative, where she currently serves as a Fellow. Her field experiences in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia and the Czech Republic provided her with a better understanding of each country’s unique political climate and ultimately helped Nadiya discover her research passion: the relationship of cybercrime to international security, interdependence and cooperation and state sovereignty. Nadiya holds her master of science in global affairs from New York University and her bachelor’s from John Jay College, City University of New York, where she was a McNair Scholar and Vera Fellow. She grew up in Berezne, Ukraine.
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VALERIA MUNT City College, City University of New York Valeria Munt is currently working at the office of New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera as a member of his community affairs team. She is completing her MA in international affairs at City College, City University of New York, where she is writing a thesis on sports and diplomacy. She has previously held internship positions with the U.S. State Department, UN Women and at the office of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. Valeria received her BA in political science, French and Spanish literature from Brooklyn College. She speaks English, Spanish, French and is learning Portuguese. Valeria was born and raised in Lima, Peru, and moved to New York a decade ago.
NEIL OCULI University of Connecticut Neil Oculi is a PhD student in geography at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He received his MA in international studies at UConn and his undergraduate degree in human ecology at College of the Atlantic. Previously, Neil studied farm management and rural development at the United World College in Venezuela. He has also conducted research in Mexico and Tanzania. For the past five years, Neil has been part of Saint Lucia’s delegation at the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change. His areas of interest include adaptation, finance, and loss and damages as they relate to Small Island Developing States. He was born and raised in Saint Lucia and is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2012).
UMUT PAMUK Ankara University Umut Pamuk works at Research Turkey, a Turkish think- tank in London, as the Publication Officer. Prior to this position, he worked at Yasar University’s European Union Center as the EU Project Expert. Umut received his MA in war studies from King's College, London, as the Jean Monnet Scholar and his undergraduate degree in international relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Umut has recently won a full PhD scholarship that will allow him to obtain a second PhD in Brazil. Following that degree, he intends to join the academic team of Ankara University, where he is currently completing his doctoral work. Born and raised in Turkey, Umut has worked at several local and international civil society organizations that focus on democratic governance and youth participation.
! 10 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! NIKHIL “SUNNY” PATEL Harvard University Nikhil "Sunny" Patel is completing a master’s of public health in global health with interdisciplinary concentrations in humanitarian studies, ethics and human rights and public health leadership at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is also a final year medical student at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He has worked with Somali and Bhutanese refugee populations domestically and, most recently, worked at a refugee camp at the Thai-Burma Border doing public health capacity building. He is interested in the intersection of international diplomacy and public health for vulnerable populations in conflict settings. Sunny has a BS and MS in biology and physiology, respectively, from UCLA. He was born in Nandurbar, India, and raised in Burbank, California.
LAUREN REESE American University Lauren Reese is a student at American University's School of International Service pursuing a MA in global governance, politics and security. She also coordinates the MA program in ethics, peace and global affairs. Previously, Lauren worked as a Government Relations Analyst for an international defense firm. In 2010, she received the Boren Scholarship to study Hindi and conduct research in India. Lauren now serves on the Board of Directors of the Boren Forum, a nonprofit organization that supports the professional development of Boren award recipients. She also has a background in and passion for diversity education. Lauren received her BA in sociology and justice and peace studies from Georgetown University. She was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is an avid yogi.
IULIANNA ROMANCHYSHYNA Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Iulianna Romanchyshyna currently works as a lawyer at Ernst & Young in Kyiv, Ukraine. She received a master’s degree in law science from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, one of the leading Ukrainian universities. Iulianna is a member of European Business Association and American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. She also volunteers as a coach for her university’s team preparing for the ELSA Moot Court Competition on World Trade Organization Law. She is also a captain of the team participating in a youth project “Youth Will Change Ukraine" intended for conducting research in a selected country (Norway) in order to further implement its success formula in different areas of reforms in Ukraine. Iulianna was born and raised in Ukraine.
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NOAM SCHIMMEL Oxford University Noam Schimmel is currently completing a master’s in international human rights law at Oxford University, researching the human rights obligations of non- governmental organizations. Noam previously attended the London School of Economics where he earned a master’s in philosophy, policy and social value and a PhD in communication, with a focus on political science and public policy. He was a 2014 O'Brien Fellow in Residence at McGill University's Centre for Human Rights, researching reparative justice for survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Since 2008, Noam has been involved in human rights research and advocacy in this area. In 2014, Noam was also a faculty member on the IHP comparative human rights study abroad semester in Nepal, Jordan, and Chile. A native of Boston, Noam is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2001).
WILLIAM SCHOMBURG Johns Hopkins University William Schomburg is completing a master’s in economics and international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University between its campuses in Italy and Washington, DC. His main interests relate to the Middle East and specifically economic development, conflict management and identity politics. Most recently, he worked at the Middle East Institute as the research assistant to Ambassador Robert Ford, focusing on conflict in the Levant. Before graduate school he worked on aid impact at the UK Government Department for International Development. While completing his undergraduate studies in Arabic and French, he lived in Syria and West Africa. William is a passionate traveller and eater and was born and raised in London.
THIJS VAN LINDERT University of Amsterdam Since 2013, Thijs van Lindert has been a research fellow at the Strategic Studies Project of Amnesty International. Currently, he is also an active contributor to an innovative news start-up that presents different views on global events. Thijs participated in the Diplomatic Studies Programme of the Clingendael Institute, The Hague. He has experience working in the European Parliament as a Pat Cox-Humanity in Action Fellow. Thijs holds a masters of science in both sociology and international relations and has a particular interest in emerging states, global governance issues and cultural change. He is co-editor of The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World and Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy: Brazil (Amnesty). Thijs is from Amsterdam and is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2012).
! 12 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! Program Schedule WASHINGTON, DC
>> Friday, May 29
Afternoon Fellows arrive in Washington, DC
Location: Ezmè (2016 “P” Street, NW)
17:30 Dinner
>> Saturday, May 30 Opening Day in Washington
Open morning and afternoon
Location: Home of Stanley and Judy Hallet (4542 28th Street, NW)
16:00 – 18:00 Introductions and Orientation Judith S. Goldstein, Anthony Chase, Antje Scheidler, Madeleine Joss and Katherine Trujillo
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner
>> Sunday, May 31
Open morning
Location: National Museum of the American Indian (4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW)
13:30 Arrival
14:00 – 14:45 Site Visit: Exhibition “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations” Guided tour
Location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (600 “I” Street, NW; Multi-Purpose Room)
15:15 Arrival
15:30 – 16:00 Reflections on Diplomacy and Diversity Judith S. Goldstein (Founder and Executive Director, Humanity in Action)
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 Fissures in Liberalism: Free Expression and Identity Politics James Kirchick (Correspondent, The Daily Beast)
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17:30 – 18:30 Group discussion led by Katherine Trujillo (Program Associate, Humanity in Action)
18:30 – 19:30 Discussion on Fellows’ research and writing projects
>> Monday, June 1 American Minorities and the Image of America
Location: The Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW; Room 500)
8:30 – 9:00 Arrival, coffee and light breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 The U.S. Constitution and Citizenship in America Jeffrey Rosen (President and CEO, National Constitution Center)
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 American Exceptionalism: The New Deal and Race Judith S. Goldstein (Founder and Executive Director, Humanity in Action)
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 14:00 Civil Rights, the Cold War and the Image of America: The International Dynamics of the American Civil Rights Movement ! Clarence Lusane (Professor of Political Science and International Relations, American University) ! Presider: Karcheik Sims-Alvarado (Program Director, John Lewis Fellowship, Humanity in Action)
14:00 - 15:00 Group discussion led by Aasha Abdill and Katie Hahn
15:00 - 17:00 Travel and open time in Capitol Hill area
Location: Cannon House Office Building (27 Independence Avenue, SE; Room 340)
17:30 - 18:30 Fear and the Rights of Minorities in America Congressman Mike Honda (17th Congressional District of California)
Location: Urbana in Hotel Palomar (2121 “P” Street, NW)
19:00 Dinner with Humanity in Action Senior Fellows
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>> Tuesday, June 2 American Engagement in Foreign Conflicts and Genocide
Location: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW)
8:45 Meet at the Museum Café (located in the Ross Administrative Center adjacent to the Museum)
9:30 - 12:30 Site Visit: Tours of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Permanent Exhibition and Displays on Cambodia Greg Naranjo (Special Exhibition Developer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Location: The Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW; Room 500)
13:30 - 14:30 Arrival and lunch
14:30 - 15:30 America’s Response to Ethnic Conflict Abroad: Rebuilding Peace in Yugoslavia Ivana Cvetković Bajrović (Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Group discussion led by Pelin Ekmen and Thijs van Lindert
16:45 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 18:00 From Research to Action: Strategies for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Mark Quarterman (Senior Fellow, The Enough Project)
>> Wednesday, June 3 Democracy and Human Rights in Foreign Policy
Location: National Endowment for Democracy (1025 “F” Street NW; Suite 800)
9:00 Arrival, coffee and light breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 Democracy, Human Rights and Resurgent Authoritarianism Carl Gershman (President, National Endowment for Democracy)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Navigating Differences in an International Career: Human Rights, Democratic Values and Identity Vishakha Desai (Special Advisor for Global Affairs to the President, Columbia University; President Emerita, Asia Society)
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13:30 – 14:30 Group discussion led by David Esarey and Usra Ghazi
Location: The Council on Foreign Relations (1777 “F” Street, NW)
15:15 Arrival
15:30 - 17:15 Op-Ed Writing Workshop Anya Schmemann (Assistant Dean, School of International Service, American University)
17:15 – 19:15 Networking Reception CFR Term Members, CFR Junior Staff and Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows
>> Thursday, June 4 Business Interests and Transatlantic Relations
Location: The Council on Foreign Relations (1777 “F” Street, NW)
9:00 – 9:30 Arrival, coffee and light breakfast
9:30 – 11:15 Crafting Foreign Policy: Business, Labor and Other Interest Groups ! Lauri Fitz-Pegado (Partner, The Livingston Group) ! Jim Dyer (Principal, Podesta Group) ! Presider: Christopher Tuttle (Managing Director, Washington and Independent Task Force Programs, CFR)
11:15 – 11:45 Break
11:45 Lunch to go
Location: The Wilson Center (One Woodrow Wilson Plaza – 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW)
13:30 Arrival
14:00 - 15:00 The Crisis in Ukraine and Russian-American Relations ! Matthew Rojansky (Director, Keenan Institute, The Wilson Center) ! Presider: Elidor Mëhilli (Assistant Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Perspectives on the Transatlantic Relationship Karen Donfried (President, German Marshall Fund of the United States)
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18:00 Group discussion led by William Schomburg and Martha Böhrt
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>> Friday, June 5 National Security, Terrorism and Diplomacy
Location: The Council on Foreign Relations (1777 “F” Street, NW)
9:00 – 9:30 Arrival, coffee and light breakfast
9:30 – 10:30 The Evolving Threat of Terrorism ! Steven A. Cook (Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFR) ! Presider: Christopher Tuttle (Managing Director, Washington and Independent Task Force Programs, CFR)
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Evaluating the U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy ! Janine Davidson (Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, CFR) ! Presider: Christopher Tuttle (Managing Director, Washington and Independent Task Force Programs, CFR)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and departure from CFR
Location: U.S. Department of State (2201 “C” Street, NW; Conference Room 2208)
14:30 Arrival
15:00 – 15:45 Group discussion led by Nikhil Patel and Lauren Reese
15:45 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Diversity in Diplomacy: An Asset, Not an Option ! Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine (Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University) ! Ambassador James I. Gadsden (Senior Counselor for International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) ! Presider: Audrey Hsieh (Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of State; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
Location: Mellow Mushroom in Adams Morgan (2436 18th Street, NW)
19:30 Dinner
>> Saturday, June 6
Open morning and afternoon; early evening departure to Berlin
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BERLIN
>> Sunday, June 7 Opening Day in Berlin
Late morning arrival in Berlin; open afternoon
Location: Humanity in Action Seminar Room (Kollwitzstr. 94, 10435 Berlin)
17:00 Arrival
17:15 – 18:15 Close-up Germany: The Political Spectrum and Political Culture Henry Alt-Haaker (Board Member, Humanity in Action Germany; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
Location: Home of Dirk Schmalenbach and Alexandra Erlhoff (Christburger Str. 19 10405 Berlin)
19:00 – 20:30 Welcome Reception ! Dr. Dirk Schmalenbach (Chair of the Board of Directors, Humanity in Action Germany) ! Guest: Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen (Honorary Chair, Humanity in Action Germany)
>> Monday, June 8 German History and Implications for Contemporary Discourses and Foreign Policy
Location: Conference Center (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin; Seminar Room 2/3)
10:00 Arrival
10:15 – 10:45 Introduction
11:00 – 12:30 Germany and Its Past: The Foreign Policy Implications of German History Ambassador Dr. Klaus Scharioth (Former Ambassador of Germany to the United States; Board Member, Humanity in Action Germany)
Location: Lemon Grass Restaurant (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Location: Memorial area in central Berlin
14:45 – 16:45 Walking Tour in the Memorial Area: Diversity Lost Tour with Anne Stalfort (Fundraiser, arbeiterkind.de) ! Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism ! Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism ! Memorial to the Murder Jews of Europe ! 18 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY !
Location: Conference Center (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
17:15 Arrival
17:30 – 19:00 Germany and Its Quest for National Identity Dr. Joachim Baur (Historian/ Exhibition Curator, Die Exponauten)
19:00 – 19:30 Closing conversation
>> Tuesday, June 9 Relations with Russia, the Conflict in Ukraine and NATO
Location: Berlin Wall Memorial (Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin)
9:15 Arrival
9:30 – 11:00 The Berlin Wall Memorial Tour with Miriamne Fields (Independent tour guide)
Location: Federal Academy for Security Policy (Ossietzkystr. 44/45, 13187 Berlin)
12:00 – 13:15 NATO Game Changes: A New Transatlantic Security Landscape Dr. Karl-Heinz Kamp (Academic Director, Federal Academy for Security Policy)
Location: Conference Center (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin; Seminar Room 2/3)
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:15 – 16:15 Group discussion led by Kayeromi Gomez and Sandrine Gil
16:15 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:45 Observations on the Crisis in Ukraine Iulianna Romanchyshyna and Nadiya Kostyuk (Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows)
18:00 – 19:30 The Conflict in Ukraine: Lessons and Strategies for the Future Wolfgang Ischinger (Chairman, Munich Security Conference; former Ambassador of Germany to the United States)
19:30 – 20:00 Closing conversation
>> Wednesday, June 10 I. Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe
Joint day with the 2015 Humanity in Action Fellows of the German Program
Location: Loft, VIA Schankhalle Pfefferberg gGmbH (Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin) ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 19
8:45 Arrival
9:00 – 9:15 Introduction Antje Scheidler (National Director, Humanity in Action Germany; International Director of European Programs, Humanity in Action) Luisa Maria Schweizer (Program Director, Humanity in Action Germany)
9:15 – 10:45 National and European Diversity: Integration Policies Thomas Huddleston (Program Director on Migration and Integration, Migration Policy Group; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
10:45 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:30 New Narratives in a ‘Post-Migrant’ Society Sina Arnold (Scientific Managing Director, Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research)
12:30 – 14:15 Lunch
II. Seeking Refuge and Asylum
14:30 – 16:00 Panel Discussion: Seeking Asylum in Europe ! Jessica Bither (Program Coordinator, German Marshall Fund of the United States) ! Harald Glöde (Co-Founder and Member of the Executive Board, Borderline Europe e.V.) ! Maximilian Popp (Journalist, Der Spiegel) ! Presider: Johannes Lukas Gartner (Senior Fellow and Program Coordinator, Humanity in Action Germany)
16:15 – 16:45 Closing conversation
>> Thursday, June 11 I. Germany’s Colonial Past and Its Impact on the Contemporary Diversity Discourse
Location: Conference Center, seminar room 1 (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
9:30 Arrival
9:45 – 10:00 Introduction
10:00 – 11:30 Coloniality and Structural Racism in Germany Joshua Kwesi Aikins (Political Scientist, Kassel University)
11:45 – 12:45 Group discussion led by Valeria Munt and Umut Pamuk
Location: Restaurant Wilhelmines Speisesaal (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
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14:15 – 15:45 Trafficking in Human Beings and Labor Exploitation Nivedita Prasad (Professor, Alice Salomon University for Applied Science)
15:45 – 16:15 Break
16:15 – 17:15 Perspectives on Combating Human Trafficking David Esarey and Robert Alvarez (Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows)
17:30 – 18:00 Closing conversation
Location: Restaurant Delizie D’Italia, Kollwitzstraße 100, 10435 Berlin)
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner with Humanity in Action Senior Fellows
>> Friday, June 12 Social and Political Ramifications of the Economic Crisis in Europe
Location: German Bundestag (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin)
8:30 Meet at the West entrance with passports
9:00 – 9:45 Visions for Europe Cem Özdemir (Chairman of the Green Party; Member of the Bundestag)
10:00 – 11:00 Site Visit: The Dome Guided audio tour
Location: Lemon Grass Restaurant (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Location: Conference Center (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin; Seminar Room 2/3)
14:00 – 15:00 The Impact of the Economic Crisis in Europe Michael Roth (Minister of State for Europe; Member of the Bundestag)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Is Europe Facing an Identity Crisis? Dr. Iveta Radičová (Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy)
17:00 – 17:15 Break
17:15 – 18:15 Group discussion led by Carly Goodman and William Schomburg
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18:15 – 18:45 Closing conversation
>> Saturday, June 13 Professional Development for International Careers
Location: Conference Center, seminar room 2/3 (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
13:15 Arrival
13:30 – 18:30 Workshop: Advanced Public Speaking Mona Shair-Wloch (Trainer, Key2Advance)
19:00 – 20:30 Reception: Becoming a Diplomat – Opportunities and Challenges Mariko Higuchi (Attaché, Federal Foreign Office) Light refreshments
>> Sunday, June 14
Day off
Location: Airport Field/Tempelhofer Field, Entrance Oderstaße (Oderstaße, 12051 Berlin)
17:00 – 20:00 Optional networking picnic with Humanity in Action Fellows and Senior Fellows
>> Monday, June 15 The Internet, Foreign Policy and the Right to Privacy
Location: Conference Center (Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin)
9:00 Arrival
9:15 – 9:30 Introduction
9:30 – 11:30 Screening of Citizenfour (2014)
11:30 – 12:30 Discussion on Citizenfour, Privacy and Technology Walter Palmetshofer (Internet Activist, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland)
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Ranking Digital Rights Allon Bar (Research Coordinator and Human Rights Specialist, Ranking Digital Rights; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
15:15 – 16:45 Internet Freedom in a Post-Snowden World Dr. Stefan Heumann (Program Director, “European Digital Agenda,” Stiftung Neue Verantwortung)
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18:00 – 19:30 Discussion on Fellows’ research and writing projects
19:30 – 20:00 Closing conversation
>> Tuesday, June 16 Closing Day in Berlin
Location: Embassy of the United States of America in Berlin (Pariser Platz 2, 10117 Berlin)
9:30 Arrival, with passports
10:00 – 11:00 Briefing with the U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany John B. Emerson (U.S. Ambassador)
Location: Alte Feuerwache (Axel-Springer-Str. 40/41, 10969 Berlin; Seminar Room 4)
11:45 Arrival
12:00 – 13:15 The European Union’s Role in Promoting Human Rights of LGBTI People in Sub-Saharan Africa Lydia Malmedie (Researcher, University of Potsdam)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Group discussion led by Analicia Carpio and David Bargueño
Location: Archaeological Centre, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6, 10117 Berlin)
16:15 Arrival
16:30 – 17:45 Protecting Cultural Property: Opportunities and Limits of Law, Diplomacy and Research ! Professor Markus Hilgert (Director, Museum of the Ancient Near East) ! Dr. Robert Peters (Legal Officer, Office of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media)
17:45 – 19:00 Site Visit: Tour of the Depository Archaeological Centre (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
Location: Restaurant Die Schule (Kastanienallee 82, 10435 Berlin)
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner
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PARIS
>> Wednesday, June 17 Opening Day in Paris
Early morning departure from Berlin and arrival in Paris
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:30 Introduction and practical details
14:30 – 16:00 The Concept of Minority in France Pap N’diaye (Professor and Director of the History Department, Sciences Po Paris)
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 The French Political Spectrum and the Diplomatic Network in France ! Sami Asali (Humanity in Action Senior Fellow) ! Marie Jouhault (Project Manager for Nonprofits, Pro Bono Lab; Senior Fellow, Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
>> Thursday, June 18 French Colonial History, Immigration and Contemporary Reality
Location: Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration (293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris)
9:30 Arrival
10:00 – 11:30 Site Visit: Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration Tour of permanent exhibition
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:30 Conflicts and Diplomatic Memory: The Case of the Algerian War Benjamin Stora (Professor and President of Advisory Board, Palais de la Porte Dorée)
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:15 Immigration in France and the Politics of Culture Angéline Escafré Dublet (Assistant Professor, Lumière Lyon 2 University)
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16:30 – 17:30 Group discussion led by Fabrice Guerrier and Sandrine Gil
Location: Grande Mosquée de Paris (2bis Place du Puits de l’Ermite, 75005 Paris)
19:45 Arrival
20:00 – 22:00 Welcome Remarks and Dinner Rabah Ghezali (Managing Director, Government Affairs and Public Advocacy, NYSE Euronext; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Humanity in Action France)
>> Friday, June 19 The French Foreign Policy Process and Diplomatic Agendas
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
8:45 Arrival
9:00 – 10:30 Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations in Business ! Clara Gaymard (President, General Electric France; President, Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society) ! Presider: Rabah Ghezali (Managing Director, Government Affairs and Public Advocacy, NYSE Euronext; Chairman, Humanity in Action France)
10:30 – 13:00 Break and open lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Negotiating for a Common Goal: Strategies for State and Non- state Diplomacy Pascal Canfin (Senior Advisor for Climate, World Resources Institute & Former Minister Delegate for Development)
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 16:45 Film Screening: Quai d’Orsay (2013)
16:45 – 17:45 Film discussion led by Lauren Reese and Neil Oculi
>> Saturday, June 20 The Humanity in Action Community
Joint day with the 2015 Humanity in Action Fellows of the French Program.
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
9:30 Arrival
10:00 – 12:00 Workshop on Advanced Networking ! Martine Alonso Marquis (Director of the Pat Cox Fellowship; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
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! Amy Hong (Policy Analyst, Development Centre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Humanity in Action Senior Fellow)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Senior Fellow Panel Discussion: Engaging with the Humanity in Action Community ! Tiphaine Lefebvre (Project Coordinator, France Terre d’Asile) ! Nabil Berbour (Co-founder, Studio Praxis) ! Maryna Soula ! Presider: Ignacio Petitcollot (International Development Manager, Audux; Treasurer, Board of Directors, Humanity in Action France)
Location: Institut du Monde Arabe (1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris)
15:00 Arrival
15:30 – 17:00 Site Visit: Institut du Monde Arabe Tour of permanent exhibition
17:00 – 18:30 Cocktail Reception Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows and Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows
>> Sunday, June 21
Day off
Location: Musée du Quai Branly (37 Quai Branly, 75007 Paris)
Afternoon Optional visit to Quai Branly
>> Monday, June 22
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
8:45 Arrival
9:00 – 11:00 Discussion on Fellows’ research and writing projects
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Terrorist Groups and the Use of Social Media Abdelasiem El Difraoui (Associate Professor, Institute for Media and Communication Studies of Berlin)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 The Role of Paris as a Financial Center in Business Diplomacy Alain Pithon (General Secretary, Paris EUROPLACE) ! 26 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY !
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Humanitarian and Moral Concerns: An Anthropological Approach to International Relations Didier Fassin (Professor, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University)
17:30 – 18:30 Group discussion led by Nikhil Patel and Robert Alvarez
>> Tuesday, June 23 Human Rights and Vulnerable Communities in Europe
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
8:45 Arrival
9:00 – 10:00 The Impact of Foreign Conflicts on Domestic Politics and Minority Issues Esther Benbassa (French Senator)
Location: Memorial de la Shoah (177 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004 Paris)
10:30 Arrival
11:00 – 12:30 Site Visit: Mémorial de la Shoah Guided tour
12:30 – 13:30 Discussion Jacques Fredj (Director, Memorial de la Shoah)
13:30 – 14:15 Open lunch
14:30 – 16:00 The Struggle of Pluralism, Religion and Secularism in 21st Century Europe Mark Lilla (Professor, Columbia University)
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 Group discussion led by Carly Goodman and Lukas Goltermann
>> Wednesday, June 24 Culture, Values and Cultural Diplomacy
Location: Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle (177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris)
9:00 – 10:00 Discussion on International Justice Pelin Elkem and Noam Schimmel (Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows)
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10:30 – 11:30 Program evaluation
11:30 – 12:30 Group discussion led by Kayeromi Gomez and Martha Böhrt
12:30 – 16:30 Afternoon break and open lunch
Location: Centre Barbara (1 Rue Fleury, 75018)
16:30 – 18:00 From the Danish Cartoon Crisis to Charlie Hebdo: The International Ramifications of Free Expression and Blasphemy Anders Jerichow (Columnist, Politiken; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Humanity in Action Denmark)
18:00 – 18:30 Break
18:30 – 20:00 Panel Discussion: Freedom of Expression, Charlie Hebdo and Europe’s Relations with the Muslim World ! Ahmed El Keiy (Head of News, France 24-on leave; Senior Strategic Communication Consultant, Glover Park Group) ! Vivienne Walt (Foreign Correspondent, Time)
20:00 Closing Reception and Remarks ! Geneviève Garrigos (President, Amnesty International France) ! Rabah Ghezali (Managing Director, Government Affairs and Public Advocacy, NYSE Euronext; Chairman, Humanity in Action France)
>> Thursday, June 25 – Sunday, June 28 International Conference in The Hague
Fellows depart from Paris and travel to The Hague with the 2015 Humanity in Action Fellows of the French Program.
The Humanity in Action International Conference is the annual gathering of Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members, friends and partner organizations.
The 2015 International Conference, titled “Gateway to Justice: The Hague,” will explore the city’s unique role in shaping international issues, especially in regard to peace, justice and reconciliation. Over four days, the conference will examine how The Hague’s approach to international justice and peace impacts national debates on human rights issues in the Netherlands and throughout the Western world. In particular, the conference will address how institutions in The Hague, including the International Criminal Courts, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Court of Justice, impact some of the most important historical and contemporary international disputes and violations of the rule of law. The conference will also feature skills workshops, site visits and networking events for Humanity in Action's international community.
Please refer to the conference program booklet for a detailed schedule and speaker biographies.
! 28 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! Speaker Biographies
JOSHUA KWESI AIKINS Joshua Kwesi Aikins is a political scientist at Kassel University and a PhD candidate in History and Sociology at the Bielefeld Graduate School. His research interests include the interaction between western-style and indigenous political institutions in Ghana, post- and decolonial perspectives on 'development,' cultural and political representation of the African Diaspora, coloniality and the politics of memory in Germany. As an academic and activist he is involved in various projects in both Germany and Ghana. As a Policy Officer with Diakonie Bundesverband, he was tasked with coordinating and presenting the parallel report to Germany's state report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in May 2015. As a member of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (Initiative of Black People in Germany), he works in both policy analysis and lobbying, advocating for data collection toward tracing, proving and combating the effects of institutional racism. He is involved in antiracist organising, diaspora empowerment and the ongoing struggle for a decolonial renaming of Berlin streets and a shift from colonial to anti- and decolonial commemoration in and beyond the German capital. In Ghana, his involvement spans conceptual and policy work, from serving as associate researcher for the Ghana Constitution Review Commission and to the development and scientific lead for Ghana Vote Compass, Ghana's first Voter advice application for the December 2012 elections.
HENRY ALT-HAAKER Henry Alt-Haaker is a program officer at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, a leading German non-profit foundation. In its activities, the foundation concentrates on Health and Science, Education, Society, and Culture, International Relations – America and Asia and International Relations – Europe and its Neighbors. Henry’s position focuses on conflict prevention and conflict transformation, skills he honed previously in positions at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin and with a number of MPs in the Bundestag, including Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, former German Minister of Justice. He cites his upbringing in Frankfurt (Oder) in the former GDR and the xenophobia and intolerance he witnessed daily as instrumental in motivating his activism and ambitions. Henry studied Philosophy and German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin, Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and Washington University in St. Louis before pursuing a second MA in Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, focusing on the labor market integration of the second generation in Germany. Henry is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (Germany 2005) and currently serves on the board of Humanity in Action Germany.
POURIA AMIRSHAHI Pouria Amirshahi was born in Iran and fled the country in 1976 with his family to move to France. Politically involved since university where he was President of UNEF (Union Nationale des Étudiants Français), he started working for Fédération des mutuelles de France and was responsible for social welfare for young adults. In 2004 he became director of the NGO 4D and represented it at the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre. In 2006 he became a high civil servant and was conducting the social policy of 3 medical centers. In 2012 he was elected Member of Parliament and represents French citizens living in Maghreb and West Africa. He is a dedicated defender of Francophony.
SINA ARNOLD Sina Arnold is a post-doctoral researcher and scientific managing director at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research. Her work focuses on Antisemitism, Muslims in Germany and comparative approaches to researching prejudice and the dynamics of post-migrant societies. Sina studied Social Anthropology in Berlin and Manchester and earned her PhD at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin.
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SAMI ASALI Sami Asali is a young professional working in geopolitics and international affairs. He has held positions as a political officer and analyst within three French ministries. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a cooperation officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the French Embassy in Rabat, Morocco. He graduated with degrees in International Relations from University Paris 1 Sorbonne and Social Sciences from Paris-Dauphine. Sami is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (United States 2009) as well as a participant in the Pat Cox-HIA Fellowship at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2012.
IVANA CVETKOVIC BAJROVIC Ivana Cvetkovic Bajrovic is Senior Program Officer for Europe at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), where she manages the democracy assistance program to Southeast Europe. Prior to joining NED in 2005, Ivana supported several USAID-funded development projects around the world and worked for the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C. Her previous experiences include training U.S. soldiers deploying to the Balkans, as well as supporting the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina immediately after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords. Ivana serves as a leading resource for policy analysts, academics, and decision-makers in Washington on political developments in the Balkans. She has testified in the U.S. Congress, authored several articles, and made a number of appearances in the leading international media, including NPR, PBS, Voice of America, AlJazeera English, and BBC Radio. Her book Mistakes Donors Make: Civil Society and Democracy Assistance in the Balkans was published in Serbia in 2011. Ivana received her Master of Public Administration from Bowie State University and MA in Democracy and Human Rights from the University of Sarajevo and University of Bologna. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
ALLON BAR Allon Bar is a human rights specialist with the Ranking Digital Rights project, which benchmarks technology companies on privacy and free expression standards. Mr. Bar previously implemented the ‘Odyssey’ project, focusing on digital security for vulnerable communities, and wrote policy recommendations for among others the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and civil society organizations. In addition to having worked with NGOs in Indonesia, Kenya, the Netherlands and the United States, he has engaged in international policymaking as a fellow in U.S. Congress and as a policy officer at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a Fulbright scholar, Mr. Bar obtained a master of international affairs degree, with a focus on human rights, at Columbia University. He further holds a BA degree in Language and Culture Studies and an MA degree in History of International Relations from Utrecht University.
JOACHIM BAUR Dr. Joachim Baur is an independent curator and museum consultant based in Berlin (www.die-exponauten.com). He studied History, Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies in Tübingen, Stuttgart and New York City and has worked at various museums in Germany. In 2010, Dr. Baur completed his Ph.D. dissertation on museum representations of migration in the United States, Canada and Australia.
ESTHER BENBASSA Esther Benbassa was born in Turkey, spent her early life in Israel where she studied until her M.A, before moving to France to get her PhD. She was a Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique before directing the Department of Religious Studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and becoming the first woman to hold the Chair of History of modern Judaism. She was elected Senator in 2011 with EELV, the French Green Party. She was particularly active in the commission to draft the law against hate speech, a law that was voted by the National Assembly in 2013. An Officer of National Merit Order and Knight of Legion of Honor, Esther Benbassa was also
! 30 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! awarded the Seligmann prize for her work against racism, injustice and intolerance.!
NABIL BERBOUR Nabil Berbour is the co-founder of Studio Praxis, an innovative social enterprise that trains private sector employees and re-invests in trainings for grassroots leaders in social inclusion, justice and equality. Prior to that, he was the Digital Communication Advisor for Pascal Canfin, former MEP and French Minister for Development. He is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (France 2009) as well as a participant in the Pat Cox-Humanity in Action Fellowship at the European Parliament in Brussels. Nabil is on the board of Humanity in Action France.
JESSICA BITHER Jessica Bither is a program coordinator at German Marshall Fund’s Berlin office (GMF). Her work focuses on migration related programing concerning labor market migration and refugee issues, foreign policy issues affecting the German- American relationship, as well as relations between the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag. She further coordinates the Berlin chapter of GMF’s Young Transatlantic Network. Prior to joining GMF, she worked for the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, and for Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management in New York City, where she was head of business development for the Alternative Investment Research division. Bither graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a bachelor’s in international studies and holds a joint master’s degree in international relations from the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University, and the University of Potsdam. She is a native speaker of German and English.
BARBARA BODINE Ambassador Barbara Bodine’s 33-year Foreign Service career was spent primarily in the Middle East, with a focus on security and counterterrorism. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 through much of 2001, and also in Kuwait and Iraq. In 1991, she received the Secretary of State’s Award for Valor for her work in occupied Kuwait. Since leaving the Foreign Service, Ambassador Bodine has been a Fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since 2007, she has been a Lecturer in Public and International Affairs and Director of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Diplomacy. Ambassador Bodine earned her BA in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Department of State's Language Training Field Schools in Taiwan and Tunisia.
PASCAL CANFIN Pascal Canfin is the Senior Adviser for International Climate Affairs at the World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank regarded as the world’s second most influential on environmental issues. He previously served as Minister Delegate for Development, working with Laurent Fabius on COP21 preparations. Pascal Canfin is also a former member of European Parliament, where he served from June 2009 to May 2012. In the European Parliament, he was a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. In this role, he worked toward the ban in Europe on “naked Credit Default Swaps” and took the initiative of creating Finance Watch, the first counterbalance to financial lobbying in Europe. He was also the Vice-Chair of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis and a member of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance.
STEVEN A. COOK Steven A. Cook is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Cook is the author of The Struggle ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 31 for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, which won the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's gold medal in 2012, and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Dr. Cook has published widely in foreign policy journals, opinion magazines, and newspapers, and he is a frequent commentator on radio and television. Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Cook was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Soref research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
JANINE DAVIDSON Dr. Janine Davidson is senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of expertise include defense strategy and policy, military operations, national security, and civil-military relations. Before joining CFR, Davidson was an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, where she taught courses on national security, civil-military relations, counterinsurgency, and public policy. From 2009 to 2012, she served in the Obama administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans, where she oversaw the development of guidance for military campaign and contingency plans. She also led policy efforts for U.S. global defense posture, including the military's rebalance to Asia, and international agreements related to U.S. forces stationed overseas. Previously, Dr. Davidson served as director for stability operations capabilities in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, where she founded and directed the Consortium for Complex Operations, an innovative interagency project to enhance education, training, coordination, and performance in complex emergencies and interventions. As an associate at DFI International, Dr. Davidson researched reserve affairs and Air Force mobility operations and strategy. As a research and adjunct fellow at the Brookings Institution and as director of counterinsurgency studies at Hicks and Associates, she conducted research on counterinsurgency, peacekeeping, and military adaptation and learning. Dr. Davidson began her career in the United States Air Force, where she was an aircraft commander and senior pilot for the C-130 and the C-17 cargo aircraft. She flew combat support and humanitarian air mobility missions in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and was an instructor pilot at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Author of the 2010 book Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War, her publications have appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Building Peace, Foreign Affairs, ForeignPolicy.com and Orbis. In 2012, Dr. Davidson was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, and in 2013 she was appointed by President Obama as a member of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force.
VISHAKHA DESAI Dr. Vishakha Desai is Special Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and Professor of Professional Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs. She also serves as Senior Advisor for Global Programs to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. From 2004 through 2012, Dr. Desai served as President and CEO of the Asia Society, a global organization dedicated to strengthening partnerships between Asia and the United States. Prior to becoming President, Dr. Desai held numerous senior positions within the Asia Society, initiating presentations of several major exhibitions of contemporary Asian and Asian American art in the 1990s, among the earliest efforts of its kind. Dr. Desai holds a BA in Political Science from Bombay University and an MA and PhD in Asian Art History from the University of Michigan.
ABDELASIEM EL DIFRAOUI Abdelasiem El Difraoui is a German-Egyptian political scientist, economist, author and documentary filmmaker currently working as an Associate Professor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies in Berlin. His work and research specialize on the Arab world and jihadist internet propaganda. He received his BA in Political Science and Economics from the American University of Cairo and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London before earning a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Political Science and a PhD in International ! 32 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! Relations from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP/Sciences Po). As a journalist and documentarian, Abdelasiem El Difraoui has worked across Germany, France, the Balkans, Asia and the Arab World, gaining international acclaim for his coverage of the Siege of Baghdad and stories from the Arab Spring. From 2004 to 2010, Abdelasiem El Difraoui lectured at the IEP Paris and from 2010 to 2012 he served as a researcher of the Near/Middle East and Africa with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. His specific focus there was the project "Jihadism on the Internet: The Internationalization of Violent Discourses on the World Wide Web,” advising the European Commission on how to combat extremist internet content. More recently, he has served as the co-editor of the magazine Zenith. He is also one of the founders of the Foundation Candid in Berlin, an independent think tank working on science-based employment and dialogue with the Islamic world.
KAREN DONFRIED Karen Donfried is the President of the German Marshall Fund (GMF), a non- partisan, non-profit organization that strengthens transatlantic cooperation on regional, national, and global challenges and opportunities in the spirit of the Marshall Plan. She also serves as the special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Donfried first joined GMF in 2001, and was a central figure at the organization as it more than doubled in size. After a stint on the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning staff handling the Europe portfolio, Donfried returned to GMF in 2005, where she served as senior director for policy programs, and later as executive vice president from 2007-2010. She provided strategic direction to GMF’s programs and bolstered its continued work on U.S.-European relations. She is the recipient of the Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded in 2011 by the German Government and the Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium in 2010, as well as the Superior Honor Award, given by the US Department of State in 2005. Dr. Donfried holds a BA in Government and German from Wesleyan University, an MA from the University of Munich and an MA and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
JOHN B. EMERSON John B. Emerson was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 1, 2013 as U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. Emerson was the President of Capital Group Private Client Services from 1997-2013. Previously, he served on President Clinton’s senior staff, from 1993-1997. He served as Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel, and subsequently as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was the President’s liaison to the nation’s governors. Emerson also coordinated the Economic Conference of the Clinton- Gore transition team and led the Administration’s efforts to obtain congressional approval of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreement in 1994 and the extension of China’s MFN trading status in 1996. In 2010, President Obama appointed Emerson to serve on the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Before joining the Clinton Administration, he served as the Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney (1987-1993) and was a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, specializing in business and entertainment litigation and administrative law. Emerson earned his BA in government and philosophy from Hamilton College and his JD from the University of Chicago.
JIM DYER Jim Dyer is a Principal at the Podesta Group. Working with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Jim served as the deputy assistant to the President for legislative affairs. Under President Reagan, Jim was responsible for the overall management of the legislative affairs office, overseeing the defense, foreign policy and appropriations portfolios. With President Bush, Jim served as the principal contact with the US Senate. A veteran of Capitol Hill, Jim served as staff director and clerk of the House Committee on Appropriations for more than a decade, producing 13 annual appropriations bills and supervising a 125-person professional staff. As principal committee liaison to the Republican leadership, he was responsible for planning the House legislative agenda. With a special ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 33 expertise on foreign policy and defense issues, Jim handled legislative affairs for the US Department of State for two years and later served as a budget consultant to the Secretary of the Navy. Gaining experience in the private sector, Jim has also directed government relations for the Philip Morris Companies, Inc., and for the Power Systems Division of United Technologies Corp. Jim served as senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds the distinguished public service award from the US Navy. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Ford’s Theater and the Chairman’s Advisory Board at the US Institute for Peace, and also serves on the boards of the National Zoo and the US Capitol Historic Society.
ANGÉLINE ESCAFRÉ-DUBLET Angéline Escafré-Dublet is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Université Lyon 2 in the Department of Political Sciences, specializing in comparative immigration studies between Europe and North America in relation to politics and culture. Before moving to Lyon in 2014, she conducted research with renowned institutes such as the Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques and the Center for International Relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. She was also a visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at University of Chicago. She holds a PhD in Modern History from Sciences Po in Paris, where her work on immigration policy was directed by Jean-François Sirinelli and Patrick Weil. She is the author of Culture et Immigration: De la question sociale à l’enjeu politique, 1958-2007 and Immigration et politiques culturelles.
LAURI FITZ-PEGADO Lauri Fitz-Pegado is a Partner at The Livingston Group. Appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Fitz-Pegado served in the Department of Commerce, under the late Secretary Ronald H. Brown and Secretaries Mickey Kantor and William Daley, as the Assistant Secretary and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service. In this role, she promoted U.S. exports and helped U.S. companies to expand market share and compete for contracts around the world; managed 130 export promotion offices overseas and 90 offices in the United States; and organized and led numerous trade and investment missions to countries throughout the world. Ms. Fitz-Pegado served on the Obama for President campaign’s foreign policy expert teams for Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. She was Director for Public Liaison of the first Clinton-Gore inauguration and advisor on international issues to Democratic National Committee Chairman Ronald H. Brown. In 1997 she joined Iridium L.L.C., the world's first global satellite and paging company, where she was Vice President for Global Gateway Management and Vice President for Corporate Affairs and Communications. A former Foreign Service officer who served in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, Ms. Fitz-Pegado also provided domestic and international clients strategic communications counsel, public relations, and government relations services at Gray and Company and Hill and Knowlton. Ms. Fitz-Pegado is Board Chair Emeritus of the National Education Association Foundation. She is Vice Chair of the Global Communities Board of Trustees, and is on the advisory boards of the Ron Brown Scholar Program and the Jones- Haywood Dance School. Ms. Fitz-Pegado is also a corporate ambassador for Vital Voices and a senior advisor and mentor to professionals in the University of Denver/Aspen Institute's International Career Advancement Program. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Government Relations Group. Ms. Fitz-Pegado is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a cum laude graduate of Vassar College and has an MA in Economics and Latin American Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
! 34 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! JAMES I. GADSDEN Ambassador James Gadsden is Senior Counselor for International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, with responsibility for both advising on the development of new programs and providing counsel and guidance for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships. Ambassador Gadsden, formerly Diplomat-in-Residence and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, served as U.S. Ambassador to Iceland from 2002 until 2005. He completed his undergraduate degree in economics at Harvard University, followed by a master’s degree in East Asian Studies at Stanford University and further graduate work in economics at Princeton.
GENEVIÈVE GARRIGOS Geneviève Garrigos is the President of Amnesty International France.
JOHANNES LUKAS GARTNER Johannes Lukas Gartner currently works as a freelancer at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and as program coordinator for Humanity in Action in Germany. Previously, Johannes worked at the Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social in Mexico City, where he was involved in the preparation, launch and monitoring of a large-scale federal press freedom campaign. He has also worked at the United Nations Development Program, the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency and multinational law firms in Istanbul and London. Johannes received his undergraduate education in law from King’s College London and obtained postgraduate degrees in Law from Humboldt University Berlin and in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, he spent a year at the age of 15 as an American Field Service exchange student in the rural countryside of Panama. Johannes is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow and participated in the 2014 Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship, staying involved with Humanity in Action since.
CLARA GAYMARD CEO and President of General Electric France since 2006, Clara Gaymard has had great success in implementing her strategic vision, driving the growth for the country through business. She also serves as the Vice President for GE International. Prior to joining GE, Clara Gaymard enjoyed an outstanding career within the French administration. After she completed her degree at École Nationale d'Administration, Clara joined the State Audit Office as an auditor before becoming a counselor. From 1991 to 2003, she held several positions in the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, focusing on SME investment and economic development as a deputy director. In 2006, her appointment as Ambassador, President of Invest In France Agency was a conclusive crossroads. As head of the Agency, Clara Gaymard brought into focus issues of innovation and private-public collaboration to favor economic growth. Having reached the personal goals she had set for herself as a public servant, Clara Gaymard seized the opportunity to implement her vision. She pursued her vocation as a link between the public and private sectors as the National Executive of GE in France, then as GE International's Vice President for Government Strategy and Sales. Outside of her professional career, Clara Gaymard is passionately involved in social debate and action. She started the Fondation Jérôme Lejeune, which is dedicated to researching genetic intelligence diseases. An Officer of National Merit Order and Knight of Legion of Honor, Clara is also Commendatore of Italian Republic Merit Order. In 2011, Fortune Magazine ranked Clara Gaymard as the 30th most influential woman in global business.
CARL GERSHMAN Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, congressionally supported grant-making institution with the mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. In addition to presiding over the Endowment's grants program in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 35
America, he has overseen the creation of the quarterly Journal of Democracy, International Forum for Democratic Studies, the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, and the Center for International Media Assistance. He also took the lead in launching in New Delhi in 1999 the World Movement for Democracy, which is a global network of democracy practitioners and scholars. In the current period, Mr. Gershman is overseeing the response of NED and its related institutes to the revolutionary changes in the Middle East and also helping to mobilize support for activists working for greater freedom in authoritarian countries.
RABAH GHEZALI Rabah Ghezali is Managing Director of Government Affairs and Public Advocacy at NYSE Euronext, a global operator of financial markets and provider of trading solutions. He is also adjunct Professor of Economics at Sciences-Po Paris. Rabah has had a successful diplomatic and legal career having worked as a counselor for major corporations and states. He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Analysis and Proposals for Middle East and North Africa where his research focused on the economics, politics and security of the MENA region and is a founding member of the Transatlantic Network 2020. He was awarded the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Fellowship, the Future Leaders Fellowship by the Atlantic Council and the Council for the United States, as well as Italy’s Young Leader Fellowship. He has further been recognized as one of the “40 Under 40,” a ranking of Europe’s most influential young leaders. He is a frequent commentator on economics, international and French affairs for the Huffington Post, CNN Global Public Square and other relevant media outlets and regularly speaks at international conferences. Rabah received his MPhil in International Relations and Economics from the University of Cambridge, his LLM in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford and an LLB, an LLM and an MA in Economics and Business Administration from Ecole Normale Supérieure. Rabah is a member of the Board of Directors for Humanity in Action and is the Chairman of Humanity in Action France.
HARALD GLÖDE Harald Glöde is the co-founder of Borderline Europe, a member of the Board of Directors, and currently responsible for the organization’s Berlin Office. He is also the co-founder of the Research Institute for Flight and Migration, where from 1994 to 1995 he researched and authored publications on the situation of asylum seekers in the Eastern bordering countries and the Eastern border of Germany. Since 1996, Harald Glöde has been a member of the Refugee Council Brandenburg and worked on various projects there until 2009. He studied Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin.
STEFAN HEUMANN Dr. Stefan Heumann is director of the European Digital Agenda program at stiftung neue verantwortung, a Berlin-based think tank. The program brings together stakeholders from diverse sectors--business, academia, foundations, NGOs, think tanks and government bodies--to discuss and develop policies to advance innovation and technology in Germany and across Europe. The program also hosts the Privacy Project, which seeks to engage policymakers, civil society and businesses in a debate on privacy protection in the age of big data and mass surveillance. Stefan Heumann is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition working group on internet privacy and transparency. Prior to joining stiftung neue verantwortung, Stefan Heumann coordinated the public affairs section of the U.S. Consulate in Hamburg and worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
MARIKO HIGUCHI Mariko Higuchi studied Russian Studies and Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin and spent a semester abroad in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. At Freie Universität Berlin, she deepened her interest and regional expertise on Russia and Central Asia. During her studies she gained work experience with, among ! 36 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! others, the OSCE in Kyrgyzstan, Thompson Reuters Ltd. in Kazakhstan, and with the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Research Group of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik). Within the Mercator Program Center for International Affairs, she worked for United Nations Women in New York and at the International Organisation for Migration in Kyrgyzstan and Thailand. She then worked as a consultant for the IOM Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in the Department against human trafficking. She also worked in the Project Office of the Intergovernmental Bali process against people smuggling, human trafficking and transnational crime. Recently she completed the training for the higher diplomatic service and will work at the Federal Foreign Office’s Task Force OSCE starting in July 2015.
MARKUS HILGERT Professor Dr. Markus Hilgert is a specialist in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and the current Director of the Ancient Near East Museum (Vorderasiatisches Museum) at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz). From 2007 until early 2014, Hilgert served as a chair in Cuneiform Studies at Heidelberg University. Between 2009 and 2015, Hilgert served as President of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, an education society established in 1898 to support German archaeological research in the Near East. From 2011 until 2013, Hilgert was the founding director of the interdisciplinary research center “Material Text Cultures” (SFB 933), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He is also the founding director of the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage, an interdisciplinary experts network for cultural heritage research established at Heidelberg University in 2013. Since 2015, Hilgert has worked as the coordinator of ILLICID, a transdisciplinary research project focusing on the illicit trade of cultural property in Germany. ILLICID is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Hilgert is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and has held visiting professorships at various universities in Europe and the United States. He has received several prestigious awards and scholarships and published extensively in the fields of cuneiform studies, cultural theory, and cultural heritage research. In 2014, Hilgert was named an honorary professor by Heidelberg University.
MIKE HONDA Michael M. Honda is the Representative for the 17th Congressional District covering the “Silicon Valley” area of California. Born in Walnut Grove, CA, he spent his early childhood with his family in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Growing up in San Jose, he earned his undergraduate degrees and MA in Education from San Jose State University. He served in the United States Peace Corps in El Salvador. Congressman Honda had served on the San Jose Planning Commission, San Jose Unified School Board, and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. He was elected to the California State Assembly, and has been a member of Congress since 2001. Congressman Honda has focused his efforts on education, civil rights, immigration, transportation, the environment, and high-tech issues. He serves on the Appropriations Committee, and as a member of two Subcommittees: (1) Commerce, Justice, and Science and (2) Energy and Water. As an appropriator he continues to champion educational equity by securing funding to convene 27 of the nation’s foremost leaders in education to serve on the Equity and Excellence commission. Along with serving as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman Honda is Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, after having served as Chair for an unprecedented seven years. He continues to work closely with many Congressional Caucuses for social justice.
AMY HONG Amy Hong is a Policy Analyst in the Migration and Skills Unit at the OECD Development Centre. Previously, she worked as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund and as a trainee for the European Parliament. She has also held positions with NGOs in Argentina, Brazil, France and Kenya. She earned a BA in Spanish and Latin-American Literatures and Cultures from New York University and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 37 where she was awarded the Hobhouse Memorial Prize for best overall performance in the Department of Sociology and the Stan Cohen Prize for best human rights dissertation. Her primary areas of interest include human rights, migration and gender.
AUDREY HSIEH Ms. Audrey Hsieh is a State Department Presidential Management Fellow currently assigned to the office of the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure. In her current position, Audrey advises the Acting Special Envoy on negotiations related to detainee transfers in fulfillment of the President Obama’s mandate to close Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Prior to this assignment, she worked as a Policy Analyst in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs maintaining safeguards on the direct commercial sales of US Munition List items and related technical data. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow, having completed the inaugural Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship program in 2014. Before working at the State Department, Audrey served eight years in the US military as an Army Officer. During this time, she served overseas in Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen and both led troops and managed multi-million dollar contractual programs. Following her military service, she completed internships at the Office of Undersecretary of Defense and the US Embassy in Beijing. Ms. Hsieh is originally from Ramsey, New Jersey.
THOMAS HUDDLESTON Thomas Huddleston is Program Director on Migration and Integration at the Migration Policy Group (MPG), a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, most notably the Migrant Integration Policy Index (www.mipex.eu). His most recent pieces can be found at www.migpolgroup.com. His topics of interest are family reunification, naturalization, immigrant political participation and evaluation of the success or failure of integration policies. He also chairs the quarterly migration subgroup of the NGO Platform on EU Migration and Asylum. Thomas participated in the Humanity in Action Fellowship Program in Berlin in 2005 and has actively remained engaged with the organization since.
WOLFGANG ISCHINGER Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger is Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. He also serves on the Supervisory Board of Allianz Deutschland AG and on the European Advisory Board of Investcorp, London. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister (State Secretary) of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998 to 2001. From 2006 to 2008, he was Germany's Ambassador in London and from 2001 to 2006 in Washington, D.C. In 2007, he represented the European Union in the Troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo. In 2014, he served as Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-In-Office promoting national dialogue in the Ukrainian crisis. He currently chairs the OSCE “Eminent Persons Panel on European Security”. The panel is mandated to offer recommendations on how to build a more resilient architecture of European security. Wolfgang Ischinger studied law at the universities of Bonn and Geneva and obtained his law degree in 1972. He did graduate and postgraduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at Harvard Law School, where he received his MA in 1973. Ambassador Ischinger has published widely on foreign and security policy as well as on European and transatlantic issues. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and of the Governing Board of SIPRI, Stockholm. He also serves on the Boards of the Atlantic Council of the U. S., the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, the American Academy in Berlin and of SWP Berlin. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen and will start teaching as a Senior Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin in 2015.
! 38 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! ANDERS JERICHOW Anders Jerichow is a Danish columnist, frequent commentator on international affairs and an international media activist focusing on human rights and the Middle East. He has been an editor at the Danish newspaper Politiken since 2002 and also Editor-in-chief of the Copenhagen daily newspaper Aktuelt. Jerichow is a member of the Board of Directors for Humanity in Action, Inc. and currently the Chair of Humanity in Action Denmark.
MARIE JOUHAULT Marie Jouhault is a project manager at Pro Bono Lab, a rising NGO that brings together non-profits, citizens and companies to solve the most pressing social challenges. She is also a second-year Master’s student in International Development at the School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris, specializing in migrations, human rights and intercultural relations. She holds a BA from Sciences Po in Social and Political Sciences, with a focus on European and Asian Studies. She also spent a year at the Jamia Millia University in New Delhi, where she studied conflict analysis, mediation and resolution from Southeast Asian perspectives. From August to December 2012, she volunteered with formerly homeless children at Tara, a Franco-Indian NGO, thus fostering her lasting commitment for social justice and equal rights. Since September 2013, she has been actively enrolled in a team project sponsored by the French think tank Le Cercle de la LICRA. As part of this project, she conducts both academic and field research about new and emerging forms of racism in France and in Europe and organizes public debates on these topics.
KARL-HEINZ KAMP Dr. Karl-Heinz Kamp is the Academic Director of the German Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin. He studied History and Political Sciences in Bonn and holds a PhD from the University of the German Armed Forces, Hamburg with a dissertation on NATO’s nuclear planning procedures. He started his career in 1986 at the German Council of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn. In 1988, he became a Research Fellow with the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In September 1988, he joined the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Bonn, where he became Head of the Foreign and Security Policy Research Section in 1992 and later the Director of its International Planning Staff. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Security Policy Coordinator of the Foundation in Berlin. From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Kamp was on a temporary assignment with the Planning Staff of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More recently, he served as the Research Director of the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome to build up NATO's Research Division. In 2009, Secretary Madeleine Albright selected him as one of the Advisors for the NATO Expert Group on the New Strategic Concept. In November 2013, he took over the newly created position as Academic Director of the BAKS.
AHMED EL KEIY Ahmed El Keiy is a Cairo-born journalist who grew up in Paris. As an Arabic and English-speaker, he has collaborated with the BBC, the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur and the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Ahram. In 2003, Ahmed El Keiy joined Beur FM, a French radio addressing the North African community. Since 2007, El Keiy has also hosted “Toutes les Frances,” a daily talk show on France Ô, a multicultural French public TV channel. In 2008, he was selected by the International Center for Journalists to cover the American presidential election. In 2011, El Keiy became Deputy Director of France 24 for the Arab-speaking news channel. In 2013, he was promoted to head of news for the Arabic, English and French speaking France 24 channels. El Keiy also works as a senior strategic communications consultant for the Washington-based Glover Park Group.
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JAMES KIRCHICK James Kirchick is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative. A journalist and foreign correspondent now based in Washington, he has reported from many areas of the world and for many news outlets such as The Daily Beast and Ha’aretz. Kirchick also worked at The New Republic and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague covering domestic politics, cultures, lobbying, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Kirchick is a recipient of several awards including the Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the year.
TIPHAINE LEFEBVRE Tiphaine will graduate next year from Sciences Po Lyon with a degree in International Relations, where her thesis focuses on Chilean political refugees exiled in France under Pinochet's dictatorship. As part of her MA program in “Project Management, Cooperation and Development”, she currently serves as a project coordinator for France Terre d’Asile, an organization working with asylum seekers and refugees. She spent a year in Chile studying and discovering Latin America, time that confirmed and inspired her work in promoting and protecting human rights, especially the rights of minorities in France and around the world. Tiphaine is also a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (France 2014) and implemented her action project last December in Lyon by organizing a study day at her university on the plural memory of the Algerian independence war. She plans to enter the NGO field.
MARK LILLA Mark Lilla is a Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, specializing in intellectual history, with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought. Before moving to Columbia in 2007 he taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and at New York University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007), The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001), and G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993). He has also edited The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001) with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers, and The Public Face of Architecture (1987) with Nathan Glazer. He is currently writing a book titled Ignorance and Bliss and another on the history of the idea of conversion.
CLARENCE LUSANE Dr. Clarence Lusane is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at American University as well as an author and activist focusing on comparative race relations, modern social movements, comparative politics of the Americas and Europe. He has lectured on these topics in over 60 countries including China, Colombia, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, South Korea, Switzerland and Zimbabwe among others. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and eight books on human rights, U.S. and black politics, globalization, and European history including The Black History of the White House and Hitler’s Black Victims: The Experiences of Afro-Germans, Africans, Afro-Europeans and African Americans During the Nazi Era. He is a former co-Chair of the U.S. Civil Society Committee of the U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan for the Elimination of Racism, and was a longstanding board member of the Institute for Policy Studies. Currently, he is Co-Chair of the TransAfrica Forum Scholars Council. He is also a Commissioner on the District of Columbia's Commission on African American Affairs. Dr. Lusane holds a BA from Wayne State University and an MA and PhD from Howard University.
LYDIA MALMEDIE Lydia Malmedie is a PhD Fellow with the Economics and Social Science Faculty at the University of Potsdam, funded by the German Research Council. Her thesis is on the EU’s foreign policy with regard to human rights for LGBTI persons in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has just returned from field research in Kenya and Uganda. Previously, Lydia worked for Europe’s largest human rights charity for equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in London. She advised the UK government and directed the highly sensitive primary school campaign ! 40 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! “Celebrating Difference.” Invited by UNESCO, she contributed to the first ever international expert meeting on homophobia in educational institutions. As an equality and diversity consultant, Lydia has worked with private and public sector organizations including SoundCloud and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ). She holds a European master degree in Human Rights and Democratization and is the president of the Alumni Association, which brings together over 2,000 human rights experts, activists and professionals of EU- funded Human Rights Master’s programs globally.
MARTINE ALONSO MARQUIS Martine Alonso Marquis is the Director of the Pat Cox-Humanity in Action Fellowship in the European Parliament. Previously, she served as Head of Cabinet for MEP Ivo Vajgl, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Slovenia. Born in Montreal, Canada, of Spanish origin, Martine studied social sciences at Humboldt- Universität in Berlin and obtained an MA in Conflict Studies, an MSc in International Relations and a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po in Paris, where she also teaches international relations. Apart from her teaching and career advising activities, she has a big passion for the Balkans and enjoys scenario writing, acting, directing and producing her own web-series. She is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (Germany 2003).
ELIDOR MËHILLI Elidor Mëhilli is a Professor of History at Hunter College, specializing in modern Europe, authoritarian regimes, globalization, integration and disintegration, and the politics of development. He is currently writing a book on socialist globalization through the angle of Albania under Yugoslav, Soviet, Eastern bloc and Chinese patronage, based on extensive archival research in Tirana, Berlin, London, Moscow, Rome, and Washington. He received a PhD from Princeton University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and a Mellon fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Humanities Forum. He has been a visiting fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany and at Birkbeck College in London, United Kingdom. His research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, and a number of edited volumes. He also regularly publishes commentary on contemporary issues in the Albanian press. He is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (Netherlands 2003).
GREG NARANJO Greg Naranjo serves as Special Exhibition Developer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
PAP NDIAYE Pap Ndiaye is a French historian specializing in North American Studies. He is also the Director of the History Department at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) and serves as a lecturer and member of the editorial board of the Journal l’Histoire. His 2008 book La Condition Noire: Essai sur une minorité française established him as a pioneer of Black studies in France for its unprecedented examination of the black condition and black urban life in France today, running his historical analysis from the 18th century up through the present. His current work focuses on the discourses and practices of racial discrimination in life insurance companies in the United States during the 20th century.
CEM ÖZDEMIR Cem Özdemir is National Chairman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (German Green Party) and a Member of the German Bundestag. Özdemir was born in Bad Urach, Germany in 1965. His Turkish parents met in Germany in the early 1960s, having arrived as so-called “guest workers.” An educator by profession, Özdemir completed his university studies in social pedagogy in 1994 at the Reutlingen- based Evangelischen Fachhochschule für Sozialwesen (Evangelical College for Social Work). A member of the Green Party since 1981, Cem Özdemir was elected to Parliament in 1994 and became its first-ever member of Turkish descent. He ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 41 served two legislative terms and was Speaker on Home Affairs for the Green Parliamentary Group. In 2003, Özdemir served as Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington and Brussels. From 2004 to 2009, Özdemir was a Member of the European Parliament as part of The Greens/European Free Alliance. Özdemir is member of the Political Advisory Council of the Bundesverband Mittelständische Wirtschaft (German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses) and also serves on advisory councils for the American Jewish Committee in Berlin, the Hertie Stiftung’s START-Program and the Hrant Dink Stiftung. He sits on the boards of trustees for the Deutsch- Türkische Forums Stuttgart e.V. and for the Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung. Özdemir is also founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
WALTER PALMETSHOFER Walter Palmetshofer is an Internet Activist at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and has experience in media collectives & campaigning. He is currently working on the projects ODINE - Open Data INcubator for Europe, the Digital openness index [do: index] and Open Data Census. He came to Berlin in 2012 co- founding personal data startup archify. Prior to that he had worked for 5 years as a sysadmin at thing.net in NYC. Walter is an economist by training and graduated from University of Vienna.
ROBERT PETERS Since 2009 Dr. Robert Peters has worked as Legal Officer for the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in Germany, in the “National and International Protection of Movable Cultural Property” division. He studied International and European Law in Berlin, Bologna and Hamburg and obtained his PhD in the area of International Cultural Heritage Law with a specific focus on restitution disputes at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Prior, he worked as Assistant Legal Officer in the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
IGNACIO PETITCOLLOT Ignacio Petitcollot is an international development manager, specialized in video- streaming and advertising. A Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action (France 2009) and the Lantos-Humanity in Action Congressional Fellowship, he always looks for new ways to integrate his experience in the private sector with his passion for minority rights. Most notably, he followed his interest in French immigration policy by working with refugees at different “waiting zones” at the French border. Ignacio Petitcollot is the President of Humanity in Action Network France, the alumni association for French participants and the Treasurer for the Humanity in Action France board. He studied history, political science, and geopolitics in France.
ALAIN PITHON Alain is the General Secretary of Paris Europlace, a professional association that promotes Parisian financial interests around the world. From 2002 to 2004, he worked at the financial agency for the Permanent Representation of France to the EU, where he defended French interests. After that he took part in major privatization process for France Télécom and the French Postal Service. He was also General Delegate of Association Française de la Gestion. He is a graduate from Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and École Nationale d’Administration.
MAXIMILIAN POPP Maximilian Popp is a journalist at Der Spiegel reporting on migration, racism and Turkish affairs. He was born in 1986 and grew up in Passau, Bavaria. He graduated from the Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism in Hamburg and studied International Relations in Istanbul.
! 42 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! NIVEDITA PRASAD Prof. Dr. Nivedita Prasad is a Professor at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, where she focuses on methods of social work and gender-specific social work. She is particularly active on the issue of asylum- seekers housing in Berlin-Hellersdorf, which has been the target of several racist attacks and far-right protests since it was opened in summer 2013. Born in Madras, India, Nivedita Prasad studied Social Pedagogy at the Freie Universität in Berlin and received her PhD at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. In 2012, she was awarded the first Anne Klein Women’s Award from the Heinrich Böll Foundation for her ongoing dedication to the human rights of migrant women. She has been teaching at various universities in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria since 1993 and has lead trainings for police officers and judges, prosecutors and lawyers. In 2010, she became the director of the Master’s Program in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences.
MARK QUARTERMAN Mark Quarterman is currently a Senior Fellow at the Enough Project. Previously, he was director of Research and Programs, and was responsible for helping to formulate the Enough Project’s policy prescriptions to end genocide and crimes against humanity, and oversees the production of reports and other publications based upon rigorous field-based research and analysis. Previously, Quarterman was a senior advisor and director of the Program on crisis, conflict, and cooperation at the center for Strategic and International Studies. He held a number of positions in the United States, including chief of staff of the UN commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and special assistant (chief of staff) to the UN under secretary general for legal affairs and legal counsel. He also served in Jerusalem and Gaza as chief of staff to the UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, and in East Timor and Indonesia for the East Timor Popular consultation. Before joining the United Nations, Quarterman worked as a staff member on the Foreign Affairs committee of the U.S. House of Representatives; a program officer at the Ford Foundation; and an associate attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
IVETA RADIČOVÁ Prof. Dr. Iveta Radičová is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and Special Advisor to Vĕra Jourová, the EU- Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. Iveta Radičová is a member of the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid and served as Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic from 2010 to 2012. As the Vice-Chairwoman of the Slovak Christian Democratic Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ-DS) she has been responsible for social affairs and health care since 2006. Previously, she served as Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Social Affairs and Housing at the Slovak National Parliament (2006-2009) and as Minister for Labor and Social Affairs of the Slovak Republic (2005-2006). She has also worked as an expert for social policy at the European Commission.!
MATTHEW ROJANSKY Matthew Rojansky is an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, especially Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. He has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance shared security throughout the Euro- Atlantic and Eurasian region. From 2010 to 2013, he was Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2007 to 2010, Rojansky served as executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America (PSA). Founded by former congressman Lee Hamilton (D-IN) and former senator Warren Rudman (R-NH) with a group of two-dozen former senior leaders from both political parties, PSA seeks to rebuild bipartisan dialogue and productive debate on U.S. national security and foreign policy challenges. Rojansky is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS and American University, and a participant in the Dartmouth Dialogues, a track-two ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 43
U.S.-Russian conflict resolution initiative begun in 1960. He is frequently interviewed on TV and radio, and his writing has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy.
JEFFREY ROSEN Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a non-partisan basis.” Rosen is also a professor at The George Washington University Law School, as well as a Contributing Editor for the Atlantic. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he explores issues involving the future of technology and the Constitution. Since 2000, he has served as a moderator at The Aspen Institute, where he conducts seminars and panels on technology and the Constitution, privacy, and free speech and democracy. He is a highly regarded journalist whose essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer. He is also the author of several books including The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. Books about Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and President William Howard Taft are forthcoming. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.
MICHAEL ROTH Michael Roth has served as a directly-elected member of the German Bundestag since 1998 and has been an active member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1987. From 2009 to 2014, he served as the Secretary-General of SPD for the State of Hesse. Until 2013, he was also the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson on Europe. Michael Roth is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation and also a member of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the Protestant Church in Germany. He has held the position of Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office since 2013 and the position of Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation since 2014. His membership, leadership and supervision extends across diverse institutions, including the Deutsche Welle Broadcasting Board, the Institute for European Politics, the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, the Center for International Peace Operations, and the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation. Michael Roth studied Political Science, Public Law, German Studies and Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, where he held a scholarship from the the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and graduated with a degree in Political Science. He has worked as a tutor and research assistant with the Center for North American Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main as well as a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin.
KLAUS SCHARIOTH Ambassador Klaus Scharioth is Professor of Practice at The Fletcher School and Dean of the Mercator College for International Affairs in Germany. Dr. Scharioth was a member of the German Foreign Service for more than 35 years (1976- 2011). He served from 2006-2011 as German Ambassador to the U.S. and from 2002-2006 as State Secretary of the German Foreign Office. Before that he was, inter alia, Political Director and Director-General of the Political Department, Director of the North America and Security Policy Directorate, Head of the Office of the German Foreign Minister, Director of the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General, as well as Vice Chairman of the UN Legal and Charter Committees. He also served in Ecuador, the International Law Division, and the Policy Planning Staff of the Foreign Office. He holds a German Law Degree, a PhD, MALD and MA from The Fletcher School, as well as honorary doctoral degrees from The College of Idaho, Chatham University and Old Dominion University. He is also a senior non-resident Fellow of the Transatlantic Academy in Washington D.C., a member of the board of Humanity in Action Germany, a member of the International Advisory Council of the Istanbul Policy Center, a member of the board (Stiftungsrat) of the Jewish Museum Berlin, of the board of ! 44 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! Population Services International in Washington, DC, and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
DIRK SCHMALENBACH Dr. Dirk Schmalenbach is a partner in the Frankfurt and Berlin offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a multinational law firm. He is known for his work on complex multi-party corporate and finance transactions. His recent focus has been on cross-border financings, advising German and international clients on debt and equity financings in particular, as well as on public and private M&A transactions. Several of the transactions he has worked on have been identified as ‘Deals of the Year.’ He has also been named a leading asset finance lawyer in numerous industry publications. His industry expertise is particularly strong in the aviation and finance sectors where he acts as relationship partner and trusted adviser for some of the firm’s most valued clients. He is a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group, which he led from 2003-09 as global co-head. Dirk Schmalenbach is a member of the Board of Directors for Humanity in Action, Inc. and is the chair of Humanity in Action Germany.
CORNELIA SCHMALZ-JACOBSEN Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen is a Berlin native, having studied Music and Languages in Berlin, Perugia and Rome. She has worked as a journalist for radio, TV and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. She has also published books and short stories, among which “Zwei Bäume in Jerusalem” (“Two Trees in Jerusalem”) tells the story of her parents, who saved some hundred Jewish lives. Yad Vashem honoured her parents as “Righteous among the Nations” by planting a tree for each of them. In the late 1960s, she started her political career in the German Liberal Party (FDP). Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen started as a member of the City Council of Munich and was later appointed Senator of the City of Berlin's Government. In 1990, she was elected to the Bundestag. A year later, the federal government appointed Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen as a Commissioner working on immigrants and refugees issues. She left Parliament in November 1998. Since that time, she has held a variety of positions in several public organizations, including serving as Board Chair of Humanity in Action Germany for many years. She is the Honorary Chair of Humanity in Action Germany and is also an honorary member of the board of directors of Humanity in Action, Inc.
ANYA SCHMEMANN Anya Schmemann is Assistant Dean of Communications and Outreach at American University's School of International Service. Schmemann previously served for almost a decade at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC, where she was director of the task force program, director of editorial strategy, and director of communications and marketing. Prior to CFR, Schmemann managed communications at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, coordinated a research project on Russian security issues at the EastWest Institute in New York City, and was assistant director of CFR's Center for Preventive Action in New York City. She received her BA in Government and her MA in Russian Studies from Harvard University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest. She has written for the National Interest, Atlantic, US News & World Report, CNN GPS, Huffington Post, and elsewhere.
MONA SHAIR-WLOCH Mona Shair-Wloch is a Certified Coach accredited by the International Coach Federation. She received her coaching training from the renowned Coaching Development School in London. Mona Shair-Wloch is also certified as a Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner by NLP Europe and Power Research Seminar in Germany. She received further specialized trainings in performance, voice coaching and team dynamics. These qualifications follow her BSc of Psychology and Management from McGill University in Canada and MA in International Relations from University of Kent Brussels. Mona was the Program Director of the Pat Cox-Humanity in Action Fellowship from 2006-2014. In ! 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY 45 addition to managing her coaching consultancy key2advance, she has been involved in various projects in the field of Euro-Arab and Transatlantic Relations. Mona has broad experience in the functioning of the European Institutions, lobbying, human rights and network development. Currently, the majority of her work is directed toward trainings and life and career coaching for individuals and groups in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
KARCHEIK SIMS-ALVARADO Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado serves as Program Director for the John Lewis Fellowship at Humanity in Action. Karcheik has devoted nearly twenty years to the scholarship and preservation of African-American history and culture. She is the CEO of Preserve Black America, LLC, a research firm dedicated to documenting the African-American odyssey in the United States and Black Atlantic World. Karcheik has worked in some of the leading museum institutions in Atlanta: National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta History Center, and Herndon Home Museum. She has also served as a history professor at Agnes Scott College, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Georgia State University. Karcheik received a Ph.D. in History from Georgia State University and is currently pursuing a M.A. degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University. She is also a multi-recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the Georgia Historical Society.
MARYNA SOULA Maryna is the Treasurer for Humanity in Action France and a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (Germany 2012). Previously, she worked in Brussels as an assistant in the Ukrainian Liaison Office and as an advocacy assistant at the International Partnership for Human Rights. Born in Ukraine, Maryna studied European Law in Germany.
ANNE STALFORT Anne Stalfort works as a fundraiser for ArbeiterKind.de, Germany´s largest community of first-generation students. Previously she has been engaged with Humanity in Action as an EU liaison officer in Berlin. After studying literature and political science, Anne completed several years of professional training on fundraising and EU grant programs. She has an extensive track record in project development, funding acquisition and public relations for various educational organisations. Her professional focus lies in creating a balanced mix of different income streams and building a sustainable fundraising mix. As a member of TransInterQueer Berlin, she has a strong interest in exploring the fight for equal rights of persecuted minorities in past and present Germany. For Humanity in Action, she offers tours of the memorial area in downtown Berlin including the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted Under the National Socialist Regime and the Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program.
BENJAMIN STORA Benjamin Stora is a French historian and an expert on North Africa, widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left Algeria following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora currently teaches at the University of Paris 13 and the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations. He founded the Institut Maghreb-Europe and has served as its head since its inception in 1991. As a member of the French School of the Far East, he lived for two years in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he pursued his research on historical memory and imagined history of the Algerian and Vietnamese wars. He has published almost thirty books, including a biography, Messali Hadj, a Biographical Dictionary of Algerian Militants, Gangrene and Oblivion: Memory of the Algerian War and, more recently, The Three Exiles: Jews of Algeria (selected for the Renaudot Essay Prize, 2006). He was appointed President of the Advisory Board of Palais de la Porte Dorée in 2014.
! 46 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! CHRISTOPHER M. TUTTLE Chris Tuttle is the Managing Director of the Washington program and the Task Force program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In addition to overseeing CFR’s relationships with the Executive Branch, Congress, and the Foreign Diplomatic Corps, he manages the Washington program staff in its work to provide substantive intellectual content to CFR members and the broader policy community. Tuttle joined CFR from the U.S. Department of State, where he served most recently as the director of the Office of Strategic Communications and Planning. Prior to his time in the Executive Branch, Tuttle was chief of staff and senior policy aide to U.S. Representative Mark Green (R- WI), an assistant majority whip who served on the House International Relations, Budget, and Financial Services Committees. Tuttle holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College.
VIVIENNE WALT Vivienne Walt is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has written for TIME Magazine since 2003. She has reported from about 30 countries and held interviews with Nelson Mandela, Saif Gaddafi, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Benazir Bhutto, to bomb makers, guerrilla fighters, CEOs and jailed criminals. She has its first stirrings, and covered the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. After 9/11 she raced to Pakistan, then covered the Afghanistan war, and later the Iraq war. Her travels have also taken her across much of Africa, the Middle East and large parts of Europe. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, BusinessWeek, Fortune, and others. She won the ASTMH Media Excellence Award for her investigation into maternal mortality in Africa, and she was twice nominated for the Pulitzer for her work on Africa while a staff writer for Newsday. She is a regular guest on CNN, NPR, WGBH “The World” and France 24. Raised in Cape Town, she emigrated to New York City, and currently lives in Paris.
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Program Locations
Washington, DC
HOTEL: Marriott Renaissance Washington, DC Dupont Circle Hotel 1143 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037
The Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies 1717 Massachusetts Ave NW #525, Washington, DC 20036 ! Cannon House Office Building 27 Independence Avenue, SE; Room 340 ! Urbana in Hotel Palomar 2121 “P” Street, NW ! United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024) ! National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006 ! Council on Foreign Relations 1777 “F” Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004 ! The Wilson Center One Woodrow Wilson Plaza – 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW)
U.S. Department of State 2201 “C” Street, NW; Conference Room 2208; Washington DC 20520 Berlin
HOTEL: Hotel Zarenhof Prenzlauer Berg Schönhauser Allee 140 10437 Berlin, Germany
Humanity in Action Seminar Room Kollwitzstr. 94, 10435 Berlin ! Home of Dirk Schmalenbach and Alexandra Erlhoff Christburger Str. 19 10405 Berlin ! Conference Center Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin; 1st yard, 2nd Entrance, 4th Floor
Berlin Wall Memorial Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin ! Federal Academy for Security Policy Ossietzkystr. 44/45, 13187 Berlin ! Loft, VIA Schankhalle Pfefferberg gGmbH Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin !
! 48 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! Restaurant Delizie D’Italia Kollwitzstraße 100, 10435 Berlin ! German Bundestag Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin ! Lemon Grass Restaurant Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin
Restaurant Wilhelmines Speisesaal Anklamer Straße 38, 10115 Berlin ! Tempelhofer Feld Oderstraße, 12051 Berlin ! United States Embassy, Berlin Pariser Platz 2, 10117 Berlin ! Alte Feuerwache Axel-Springer-Str. 40/41, 10969 Berlin) ! Archaeological Center Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6, 10117 Berlin ! Restaurant Die Schule Kastanienallee 82, 10435 Berlin Paris
HOTEL: Hotel Muguet 11 Rue Chevert, 75007 Paris
HOTEL: Hotel Empereur 2 Rue Chevert, 75007 Paris
Association pour la Gestion d’un Centre d’Animation Culturelle 177 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris ! Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration 293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris) ! Grande Mosquée de Paris 2bis Place du Puits de l’Ermite, 75005 Paris ! Institut du Monde Arabe 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris
Memorial de la Shoah 17 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004 Paris
The Hague
HOTEL: Hampshire Hotel - Babylon Den Haag Bezuidenhoutseweg 53, 2594 AC Den Haag, Netherlands
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About Humanity in Action
Humanity in Action is an international organization that educates, inspires and connects a network of university students and young professionals committed to promoting human rights, diversity and active citizenship in their own communities and around the world.
Humanity in Action has educated over 1,500 young leaders who now form a unique international community. The annual Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together more than 150 European and American university students and young professionals each summer in programs in Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States to discuss, learn and research in international groups. Humanity in Action Fellows meet leading experts and activists to study historical and contemporary cases of institutional violations of human and minority rights. Fellows write research-based articles and develop teaching tools to share what they learned in their programs.
Humanity in Action supports all Fellows financially for the duration of their programs, allowing for the merit-based selection of diverse applicants. Humanity in Action also provides professional development opportunities. It maintains an international network of students, young professionals, established leaders, experts and partners for which it organizes a range of educational and career opportunities, including seminars, workshops, study trips and fellowship positions at leading civic and political institutions, such as the European Parliament, the United States Congress, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. These opportunities encourage emerging leaders to develop their professional abilities and introduce established leaders to the ideas of the younger generation.
Humanity in Action’s network of leaders is a valuable resource to policy-makers, diplomats, educators, business leaders and civic-minded individuals and organizations. By the end of the decade, Humanity in Action will connect over 2,500 professionals working in all sectors, on a range of critical issues, in countries around the world.
Humanity in Action is a non-profit, non-partisan organization with governing and advisory Boards in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States. Humanity in Action’s international headquarters is in New York City.
Major supporters of Humanity in Action have included the Ford Foundation; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund; the Germeshausen Foundation; the Stavros Niarchos Foundation; Open Society Foundations; the Hurford Foundation; Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ); the William H. Donner Foundation; the Fetzer Institute; the Dutch Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sport; the Polish Foreign Ministry; and the U.S. Department of State.
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JUDITH S. GOLDSTEIN Founder and Executive Director Judith Goldstein founded Humanity in Action in 1997 and has served as its Executive Director ever since. Under Judith’s leadership, Humanity in Action has organized programs on international affairs, diversity and human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States. She received her PhD in history from Columbia University and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar for her MA studies. Judith has written several books and articles about European and American history, art and landscape architecture. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and several boards and advisory groups. She is originally from Great Neck, Long Island.
ANTHONY CHASE Director of Programs Anthony Chase serves as Director of Programs at Humanity in Action in New York City. He oversees a number of initiatives, including the Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship, the annual New York Conference, the John Lewis Fellowship and the Philanthropy and Social Enterprise Fellowship. Previously, he worked for Libraries Without Borders in Paris. Anthony is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he served as a research assistant in urban planning, political science and African studies departments. Anthony is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2011) and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
ANTJE SCHEIDLER National Director (Germany) and International Director of European Programs Antje Scheidler has been with Humanity in Action since 2002, when she became Program Director of the, then new, German program. She also oversees the European programs of Humanity in Action. Antje was born in East Germany and has lived for almost her entire life in Berlin, where she experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a teenager. Antje studied English and American studies and social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Toronto and became very interested in immigration related issues and matters of social cohesion. She was a researcher at Humboldt University in the Department of Demography from 2000-2007 and an editor-in-chief of the newsletter Migration and Population from 2000-2011.
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MADELEINE JOSS Program Coordinator Madeleine Joss is a Program Coordinator at Humanity in Action, based in Paris, France. She was a parliamentary assistant at the French National Assembly, working with local associations and on local development. Previously, she was a Program Officer at the City Hall of Paris working on public health. Her research interests include feminism, intersectionality and cultural diversity. She graduated from Pantheon Sorbonne University in economic and social development including public affairs in Ottawa University. Madeleine also runs an association which aims at giving a voice to residents of diverse and mixed-income neighborhoods and is working on a film about youth social entrepreneurship. Madeleine is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2011).
KATHERINE (KAT) TRUJILLO Program Associate Katherine Trujillo is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2010) and a current graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Prior to Fletcher, Katherine worked on education policy at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, a nonprofit that serves America's public historically Black colleges and universities. She also worked as an Advocacy/Communications Associate for the National Head Start Association and a Global Fellow for Operation HOPE. Katherine attended the University of California, Berkeley as a Regents and Chancellor Scholar where she studied “Democracy and Revolution in Latin America and the Middle East.” She is a New Leaders Council Fellow in Boston and is currently pursuing an LLM in gender, conflict and human rights at Ulster University as a 2015 George J. Mitchell Scholar.
! 52 2015 DIPLOMACY AND DIVERSITY ! International Staff & Offices
NORTH AMERICA EUROPE
NEW YORK BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 601 West 26th Street, Suite 325 Skenderija 33 71000 Sarajevo New York, NY 10001 [email protected] [email protected] +387 33 218 281 +1 (212) 828-6874
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Madeleine Joss Program Coordinator
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Magda Szarota GERMANY Board Member & Communications Director Kollwitzstraße 94-96 10435 Berlin [email protected] Przemek Iwanek Program Manager +49 (0)30 44 30 82 71
Antje Scheidler National Director & International THE NETHERLANDS Director of European Programs Keizersgracht 177 NL 1016 DR Luisa Maria Schweizer Amsterdam Program Director [email protected] +31 (0)20 773 3595 Johannes Lukas Gartner Program Coordinator Inger Schaap National Director POLAND Konwiktorska 7, Room 43/7 Christel Groot Warsaw 00 - 216 Program Director [email protected] Corinne Arnold +48 22 635 01 50 International Conference Coordinator Monika Mazur-Rafa National Director
Humanity in Action, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. • Humanity in Action Denmark is a registered forening according to Danish law with branch code 913330. • Humanity in Action Deutschland e.V. is a registered gemeinnütziger Verein. • Humanity in Action France is a registered association loi 1901. • Humanity in Action Nederland is a registered stichting. • Fundacja Humanity in Action Polska is a registered foundation. • Fondacija Humanost u Akciji BiH is a registered foundation.
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